Moments Quotes

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

~ Herb Brooks

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

~ Phillips Brooks

I actually think some of my best moments in life have been while I was with people from Instagram - whether it's super late nights getting a release out or being able to travel to places I'd never visited and meeting some of the most interesting people I've ever met.

~ Kevin Systrom

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

~ Al Boliska

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

~ Corita Kent

I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

~ Roger Federer

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

~ Carly Fiorina

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

~ Shia Labeouf

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

~ Bruce Feiler

The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those squirm-inducing moments in comedy that produce enough discomfort that, at points, what we're watching is half a heartbeat away from a horror film.

~ Elvis Mitchell

The movies I like watching the most are these sort of cinema verite, handheld films where you really get gritty with people. But I also have this strange affinity for old Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies and things that sort of pop out where you see the frames, where you have these 2D animation moments and split-screens and things like that.

~ James Gunn

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

~ Jason Silva

It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking Bad' or any of these other great shows - you remember situations or characters. Not moments. But I have to say, I can make the same argument for mainstream movies, which have bad narratives and also no memorable moments.

~ Alfonso Cuaron

I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.

~ Tim Conway

Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

~ Cameron Sinclair

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

~ Bob Newhart

I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

~ Rush Limbaugh

My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

~ Kevin Hart

I make funny videos of me playing video games, and I share those moments.

~ Pewdiepie

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

~ Mark Ruffalo

Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.

~ Mark Haddon

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

~ Edith Wharton

Imagination is a pretty powerful thing, and when you're in the moment and you're riding a train and you're asked to look scared, I don't know, it just kind of works out. And in those moments where you're actually doing some of the stunts, then it's not so hard at all, because there's an actual fear there.

~ Chris Pine

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

~ Jane Campion

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

~ Giorgio De Chirico

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

Everyone thinks they can write a play you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

~ Neil Simon

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

~ Walter Pater

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

~ Michael Palin

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

~ Eugene Kennedy

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

~ Evander Holyfield

My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.

~ Tracee Ellis Ross

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

~ George Eliot

I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

~ Cat Osterman

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.

~ Jaime Camil

About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.

~ Jeremy Stoppelman

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

~ Hugh Hopper

There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'

~ Brie Larson

You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?

~ Hailey Baldwin

With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.

~ Vanessa Lachey